Problems upgrading to macOS Mojave on MacBook Pro 2018

One further clarification - Though I would like to take the credit for coming up with this fix, I simply reposted it from another poster who truly gets the credit! The value of these discussion forums lies with the collaborative efforts of all of us who post hereon.

dmauch, I would suggest providing a link on this thread directly pointing to the original post. That would be the easiest and best way to credit the original poster with finding the solution that has solved several people's issues.

Just a thought.

Thanks iFrog. I have done so several times in the past and quite honestly it was either somewhere within the 31 pages on this thread or another entitled something like Mojave Upgrade a Disaster. I’m quite sure that it was “rocket...something. But I’ll try and go back and find it again.

Here you go IFrog. Thanks. It was Quirkz and appleuser.

dmauchOct 12, 2018 3:46 PM in response to picklebreath

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Oct 12, 2018 3:46 PM Re: Problems upgrading to macOS Mojave on MacBook Pro 2018in response to picklebreath

Quirkz and the appleuser on another thread get the credit, not I. I simply tried it out, refined their posted instruction a bit and it worked. It is THEY who get the credit and thanks, not I. So happy for you to end off a long week!

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Good deal, What I am really happy about seeing is, many of the people here who were initially fuming at apple, and each other one the problems, have learned how to solve the issues, and have been able to upgrade and move on. Yes there are still one or two here that haven't resolved their issues yet, but the number of successes vs failures is growing larger. Funny, after the uproar with Robin, I've not seen him post again in here for a while.

The truth be known iFrog — The fix was first posted on a thread entiled “Mojave login UI sluggish and laggy” started by removetxtforward. When Quirkz first posted the fix and it worked, I copied and reposted to this thread. In the meantime it created a lot of chatter over on removetxtforward’s thread so much so that he requested that we take our fix elsewhere since it didn’t address his particular issue. It got to a point where he referred to me as a “dou—-bag spammer,” after I tried explaining that the fix was helping a lot of people regardless of his thread’s original subject. Apple subsequentry “unauthorized “ me from posting any further content on his thread. So be it.

Curious to know if you purchased from an Apple Store or elsewhere. Sounds like your MBP’s came from earlier inventory - nevertheless, especially if from the Apple Store - should have been updated with Mojave One would think.

One would logically assume that the Apple Stores would have been instructed to pre-load all Mac OS devices sold subsequent to the Mojave release on or about 9/24/18 with Mojave...unless of course they were already aware of pending problems! I know that sounds conspiratorial but ...

Updated from the Mac and now it is so slow. Thought it was my wifi but I was upgraded to faster speed and still ther beach appears all the time. I check the activity monitor and there are many, many Chrome Helpers. Is that the problem or is it Mojave o/s?

I have an iMac 2015. The processor is a 3.3 Ghz Intel Core i5. I have successfully installed Mojave on this iMac and on a MBP. However, if I turn the iMac off, it will not boot to anything (including multiple backups). Instead, I have to reinstall Mojave with the command R keys. I have now reinstalled Mojave 4 times. And, I have now given up and bought a new machine because Apple Care expired on the 2015 iMac, and who knows how much a repair would cost. It is also nice to know that Apple will not take this machine in as a trade in. It must be too old! I am so stuck in the Apple ecosystem on so many levels that it would be months of pain to extricate myself and the entire house from Apple. If I could do so, I would and run back to a PC. There, the failures are predictable and not ridiculous such as with Apple, and I wouldn't be shelling out nearly $4,000 for a new machine with Apple Care. Apple is not interested in computers any longer; it has moved on to bigger and better things.

Hi Steven, sorry to hear you didn't have a good experience with Mojave, and your iMac. I have the same iMac model, and Mojave has worked nearly flawlessly. I have a 2TB Fusion drive, and that has also worked perfectly with APFS under Mojave. I also understand about feeling stuck in the Apple ecosystem. For me, it's mainly software holding me here. Sorry to hear that you went through the trouble of buying a whole new machine, just to fix what would probably an easy problem. I hope the new machine works out for you well.

Also, even though this is the Apple Community, I wouldn't blame you, or hold it against you if you did decide to switch at some point. I've been looking at other options besides Apple as well. Have a great day!

So infuriating!! I just bought a new 2018 MBP and I too jumped on Mojave. No problems with my 2013 MBP or my friends new MBP. If this last download/install fails, how do you get to the Terminal to rename the file?

Apple supervisor said i must I upgrade El Capitan to Mojave (not beta)

I downloaded Mojave installer but it won't install

i tried to uninstall--no luck. Then I moved it to Trash,& got this message:

'Mojave can't be moved to trash because it's currently in use'

What? Thousands upon thousands of complaints are lodged about this new OS--it's inconceivable this hasn't been corrected yet

And OS you have downloaded directly from App Store? Or any other source?